Apple to Fix Security Holes in Jaguar

Simon Cozens writes "Yesterday's unsubstantiated report that Apple is refusing to supply security upgrades to Jaguar turns out to be untrue; Apple told MacCentral they will be fixing the bugs turned up by @stake. Next conspiracy, please!"

Comments

were they always going to?

[dirk]

Now the real question is whether they told @stake they weren't going to fix them and changed their mind after the because of all the talk about it. It is as wrong to assume they were always going to fix it as it is to assume they weren;t going to fix it. I would tend to believe they told @stake that, and then when word got out and everyone screamed, they changed their minds right quick.

Re:Well hell

[feldsteins]

Mac fans can't win on these stories. First an alarmist article claiming that they are "forcing" paid upgrades by not fixing security holes in existing systems. Hundreds of Apple-bashing posts later, it comes out that they are indeed patching the existing systems. You come on here to point this out and say "see? They ARE fixing it!" and someone comes behind you and says "big fucking deal! this is what everyone else would do!"

Following Apple-related discussions on Slashdot is like riding on a bus with no steering: it careens onto the right shoulder, heads back toward the middle, only to screetch onto the left shoulder, back toward the middle...

Re:Apple DID NOT initially plan to patch Jaguar

[buysse]

I'm paranoid, I'll freely admit, but this is the same l0pht^H^H^H^H^H @stake that canned someone who was critical of Microsoft? Hmmp.
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